Unit 3
The theory that if one 3rd world nation falls to communism, all the others will follow. This motivated the US to invade Vietnam.
What was the Domino Theory?
This was a period in American history from 1945 - 1970s (primarily the 50s & 60s) when Americans were afraid of Communist spies and persecuted American leftists.
What is the Red Scare?
The aggressive demands of the Treaty of Versailles, the Economic Depression, German Militarism, the Failure of Appeasement policy that led to German Militarism, Japanese Militarism, and the Failure of the League of Nations.
What were the causes of WWII?
The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope.
What is Epistemology?
This is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What is Capitalism?
This event, in which a US naval ship was allegedly torpedoed by the North Vietnamese, was one of the pretexts (or excuses) to the US going to war with North Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
This political activist party was created to protect the rights of African Americans and other minorities or marginalized communities during the 1960s.
What was the Black Panther Party?
In WWI the US militarism was old-fashioned and primitive, whereas in WWII the US switched to an industrial model and utilized a command economy.
What were the differences between WWI & WWII US mobilization?
The methods we use to determine if something is true
or false in a metaphysical way. It is the study if being - determination of whether something is or isn’t.
In short - the methods we use to determine being or non-being.
What is Ontology?
There was concern in the US leadership that socialism and other forms of leftism may lead to the dismantling of the interests of large business owners, the diminished role of religion in society, and the equality of women and minorities to white men.
Why did the US Government fear Communism?
This African-American Woman was a member of congress and ran for president in the 1970s. She mainly faced opposition from men, regardless of race.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The system racially motivated segregation in the post war period initiated by banks refusing to loan or insure homes for someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk (generally people of color).
What is Red-Lining?
This was the political rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after WWII. It did not feature direct combat between the US & USSR, but was fought through proxy wars & the space race.
What was the Cold War?
A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
The idea that one can use reason to work out a problem.
What is Rationalism?
These two men founded the Black Panther Party.
Who were Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton?
Inflation, Stagnation, Deregulation, & Deindustrialization can be said to be this type of concern for this decade.
What are the economic problems of the 1970s?
This turn of the century activist was famous for having championed women's equality, free love, workers' rights, free universal education regardless of race or gender, and anarchism.
Who was Emma Goldman?
This is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is Communism?
This is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence.
What is Empiricism?
This principle was what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights protest strategy revolved around.
What was non-violent protest?
This was the economic policy most closely tied to 80s president Ronald Reagan. It involved tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and corporations and deregulation.
What is Trickle-Down Economics?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view, generally using emotional appeals and hyperbolic language.
What is propaganda?
This was the aggressive campaign against alleged communists in the US government & other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy from 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party. This became synonymous for unfair persecution.
What was McCarthyism?
This is a family of philosophical views that question the possibility of knowledge. It holds that one cannot know something absolutely with complete certainty.
What is Skepticism?
This was President Ronald Reagan's racially motivated expansion of Nixon's anti-drug policies.
What was the "War on Drugs?"